Philosophy 1130F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Dialectic
9 Apr 2020
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Office hours: tuesday and thursday - 11:30 - 12:30 (stevenson hall 4142) Scientific ideas have been created to give structure to things we don"t understand (like the homeric gods) According to prof disalle this is not true -- instead it is to find something systematic. Dialectic - questioning what you believe and what others believe. Ex. math needs as certain type of inquiry, not just assumptions. Both in things like mathematics and moral ideas. Thinking through the implications of what you have done for example. Fundamental to everything we do, yet also not enough which is where dialectic comes in. If you don"t have any reason to believe the premises than you have no reason to believe the conclusion. Philosophers pursued science to know and understand than to be useful. We like to just know about things we don"t necessarily care about the particular benefits of knowing we just want to know.
